Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] [to-vb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The text goes on to refer to a general trust clause providing that the heir should pay the legacies and carry out the instructions in the will . |
| 2 | Then it goes on to look at a second play , B , and the replies to that . |
| 3 | A bumpy ride : Major flies in to fight for a key marginal . |
| 4 | The student will not feel a sense of guilt if she sits down to talk to an anxious patient . |
| 5 | One has only to glance at a human skeleton to see the numerous segments of the vertebral column . |
| 6 | Though he has yet to finish on a winning side — Great Britain lost both tests and were defeated 8-O at Leigh — & name is confident the side will come up with the goods this time . |
| 7 | Defenders of the Jewish American pieties and proprieties , and those in Israel for whom the Diaspora Jew is a rootless cosmopolitan , had marked Roth as a bad man , and in their eyes he has yet to turn into a good one . |
| 8 | No rule of law or the profession , therefore , prevents him from entering into a contract by which he undertakes not to act for a specified class of person . |
| 9 | However , the purchaser should be aware that the effect of the decision by the House of Lords in the recent case of Walford v Miles [ 1992 ] 1 All ER 453 is that the purchaser can achieve exclusivity only in the sense that the vendor undertakes not to negotiate with a third party for a fixed period . |
| 10 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 11 | I hope Wilko cuts his losses with our Brian and then goes out to look for a decent striker . |
| 12 | After rounding the imposing sheer cliff face of Seelisberg , it is rather surprising when the boat draws inshore to moor at a little pier with no sign of village or community in sight . |
| 13 | As Bishop Holloway pointed out in our pages yesterday , the contemporary family seems increasingly to exist in a moral vacuum , with too many children left in control of their own leisure time while their elders are either absent or indifferent to their activities . |
| 14 | ‘ At least that generation knows how to behave at a first night … ’ |